[game_preservation] More games pulled from virtual console

[Benj Edwards]

I've also been looking for the iPod click wheel games (pulled from 
iTunes in 2011) in the Library of Congress, but I can't seem to find 
them.  BitTorrent on the other hand...

Benj

P.S. Humor aside, BitTorrent only has about 8 of those commercially 
extinct click wheel games on tap.  If anybody has more, please let me 
know.  It's about time someone built up a "proper" illegal collection.

On 11/19/2012 4:42 PM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> They are, annoyingly...some game systems have already gone offline 

> making such games unplayable. One of the earlier EA ones I think 

> entirely went under? (they basically moved system rendering the old 

> one obsolete so turned it off).

>

> MSN Gaming Zone went offline years ago too (luckily most of the games 

> that used it can use direct IP to connect and were not downloaded from 

> the service).

>

> As you say Devin, Piracy isn't the solution but it is not an 

> impediment either and I'd wholly take anything I can get over nothing!

>

> There are also always the whispers that some virtual console games 

> (from a variety of releases over the years) have actually used pirated 

> roms as their source, making it an odd roundabout of content delivery...

>

> Andrew

>

> On 19/11/2012 20:26, Philippe Dubois, association MO5.COM, Président 

> wrote:

>> Re: [game_preservation] More games pulled from virtual console

>>

>> All the Steam games only presented through this platform are in great 

>> danger ;)

>>

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>> Cordialement,

>>

>> Philippe Dubois, Association MO5.COM, President

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>> -- 

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>> 	

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>> Seconded, Frank.

>>

>>

>> On a tangential topic -- has anyone ever made a list of video games 

>> that have apparently been lost to history (or are particularly 

>> endangered)?  I've though about undertaking it a few times, but it's 

>> hard to make a list of things that are, well, lost, because few 

>> people know about them.

>>

>>

>> Benj

>>

>>

>>

>> On 11/19/2012 3:04 PM, Frank Cifaldi wrote:

>>

>> Indeed. As far as I know, the raw files from every Virtual Console 

>> release have been ripped and torrented thousands of times over, so 

>> I'm not personally worried about games getting pulled. It's not 

>> ideal, but it's the best we can expect to have accomplished I think. 

>> Too bad we can't say the same about other digital Nintendo stuff from 

>> the past, like a lot of the games that were beamed into the BS modem 

>> in Japan.

>>

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>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Benj 

>> Edwards <editor at vintagecomputing.com 

>> <mailto:editor at vintagecomputing.com>> wrote:

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>>

>> One link:

>>

>>

>> http://technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/

>>

>>

>> :)

>>

>>

>>  Benj

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>> On 11/19/2012 2:52 PM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>>

>> Local until your console fails, you send it back for repair and it is 

>> wiped in the process.

>>

>>

>> Sigh.

>>

>>

>> Andrew

>>

>>

>>

>> On 19/11/2012 17:39, Philippe Dubois, association MO5.COM 

>> <http://MO5.COM>, Président wrote:

>>

>> :(

>>

>> I believe that "local copies" of your legal stuff bought for the 

>> Virtual Console will still continue to work, i hope !

>>

>>

>> Best regards,

>>

>> Philippe Dubois, Association MO5.COM <http://MO5.COM>, President

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>> I didn't know Nintendo had pulled games previously, but now the DKC 

>> games are no longer available on US Wii Virtual Console and will soon 

>> be unavailable in the UK (and probably in Japan soon after).

>>

>>

>> http://www.nintendo-gamer.net/2012/11/19/the-donkey-kong-country-games-are-being-pulled-from-virtual-console-this-sunday/

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>>

>> I guess the thing that's worse about stuff being pulled is stuff 

>> being pulled with no announcement.

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